Direct democracy was common in the pre-modern world, but that isn't the subject here: The authors identify two principal roots of what they deem modern representative democracy. First is the presence ...

In 2025 and 2026, the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities will support the organisation of three citizens’ assemblies : in the Obolon district of Kyiv, in the Rivne territorial community and in ...

Representation is an essential but troubled element of American democracy. The entire US political system is built on an idea of representation. Indeed, representative government is guaranteed to ...

I realize that as a part of its messaging, the Republican Party likes to talk about how democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner. I also understand why they are against ...

What Ed Meese and Kelly Shackelford describe in “The Left’s War on the Rule of Law” (op-ed, May 17) illustrates how social justice is meant to operate: outside of our governance structures. Within ...

Exit polling suggests that about a third of those who cast a vote in the 2024 presidential election viewed American democracy ...

It has of late become en vogue, at least in some circles, to claim that the United States, rather than a democracy is, in fact, a republic. This begs the question: What’s the difference? Recently, I ...

Thirty years ago, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was a widespread belief that democracy would rapidly spread to envelop the whole world. Now we’re worried about whether democracy can survive ...